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Monday, March 24, 2003
# Posted 7:47 PM by Ariel David Adesnik The new, Islamic-influenced [Turkish] government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan transformed that formerly staunch U.S. ally into Saddam's best friend.Unfortunately, one cannot expect American liberals to defend Turkey from such slander the way they did Tom Daschle. In fact, even conservatives defended Daschle. As I have argued, the Turkish government's failure to win parliamentary support for hosting US troops should be chalked up to incompetence, not malice. (Or American incompetence, if you agree with Josh Marshall.) In the years ahead, America is going to have learn how to cooperate with Muslim democracies -- some of them allies -- who do not always do what we want even when what we want is morally sound. Intolerance like Safire's is thus extremely dangerous if there is to be any hope of realizing the President's vision of recasting the politics of the entire Middle East. After all, if we can live with allies like France, there's no reason we can't put with the rest... (0) opinions -- Add your opinion
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